Barytherioidea

Uncredited · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProboscideaPBDB
- Diet
- grazer, browserPBDB, for Proboscidea
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Proboscidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 14 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 27.3 Mya.
6 occurrences of Barytherioidea on record, most of them in the Eocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
6 occurrencesThese are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
3 formations
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The named rock units Barytherioidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Barytherioidea and its relatives
EoceneWhere Barytherioidea and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
104 taxa- Protopterus3 sites
- Hydrobiidae2 sites
- Proboscidea2 sites
- Rhinobatos2 sites
- Abdounia beaugei1 site
- Aetobatus arcuatus1 site
- Albulidae1 site
- Alestinae indet.1 site
- Alethinophidia1 site
- Alphadon1 site
- Anomaluridae1 site
- Apterodon langebadreae1 site
- Archaeomanta1 site
- Arsinoitherium1 site
- Arsinotherium1 site
- Asteroidea1 site
- Atergatis1 site
- Aves1 site
- Balanus1 site
- Brychaetus1 site
- Calappa1 site
- Calpensia1 site
- Candona1 site
- Carcharhinus perseus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Barytherioidea, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
6 references- A Middle–Late Eocene vertebrate fauna (marine fish and mammals) from southwestern Morocco; preliminary report: age and palaeobiogeographical implications1
- Malian Paenungulata (Mammalia: Placentalia): New African Afrotheres from the Early Eocene1
- A new large mammal from the Ypresian of Morocco: evidence of surprising diversity of early proboscideans1
- Oligocene-Miocene terrestrial vertebrates in the southern Arabian peninsula (Sultanate of Oman) and their geodynamic and palaeogeographic settings1
- A new species of Numidotherium (Mammalia, Proboscidea) from the Eocene of Libya and the early phylogeny of the Proboscidea1
- Reassessment of Lower Eocene Seggeurius amourensis: aspects of primitive dental morphology in the mammalian order Hyracoidea1
Each of the 6 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Barytherioidea
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Barytherioidea was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itProboscidea through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Simpson 1945